Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-07-20
SLEEP on A FARM
r,o,v Younc Man Did Not Get Cured.

said the pale young man sadly,
Il ALI uot working on farm for M
health now"
'Is that so p' ,h
Yes. L have come away anu .no
farm which knew. me would perhaps
Know me yet if it could get slght oi
me, but 1t can't
II went out, you know, by the ad'lce
of = physician. said he: on neeo
out-door exercise, and above all, sleep,
snch long. quiet nights sleep as you can
onlv find in the country away from the
noise and heat of the city, with the
Great open windows and the cool and
yeIvety breeze floating through your
room all night long, with perhaps an
occas ional night with the pattering rain
upon the roof to lull you TO sleep. >
That's what the doctor said.
$50 hired out to i farmer TO work
all summer. He said / was so white
and male that he couldn't give me any
thin but my board for my services,
but IL I wanted to work for that L
MIGHT climb in behind the seat and
ride out.
$50 | did. lie had one mule and one
horsa and the mule baked every time
we went up hill, and they both tried to
run away on the level. He drove them
with a trace-chaln tied on white ASH
axie-helve.
"But we got ont there at last. L
don't want TO tell you anything about
the work to-day-I haven't tlme-put
| / feel as il | must say something about
those long nights sleep.
THE first night We got home late,
bat still the sun WAS only nicely down.
! Tie sun sstS about two hours later out
| there than any where else in the known
D world.
"After supper the farmer spent one
hour and 4 half telling me about the
fax crop on the back forty, and then
J he reckoned We better milk. Ihere
/ were twelve cows and he said each
would take six. lie gave me the klckers
and il took me two hours and II hac
I been dark long while when finished.
| Then lie had me pump up water Tor the
| next day. And it took me forty milf
utes. Then | filed the wood-boS and
split the kindllng wood And as II was
/ n bIr box il took thirty minutes. Theu
lie told me about the oat crop. which
took an hour. And when | went TO
bed it was growing light IN the east.
The window In the room WAS
pane OF glass nailed over an irregular
/ hole in the boards and could not be
I opened. l felt around IN the dim light
and finally got into bed. 1 had jusi
fallen asleep and had begun to dream
Was living along the ridge-pole or
( double-humped camel when the farmer
pounded on the stairs with an olC
! brOomstick and said breakfast wa
ready. 1 couldn't see as 1t was AN!
lighter than when / went 10 bed
though the sky in the east was 4 Ilttl
redder.
II will pass over the day as II /!
Painful TO recall. Or rather the dal
and the last end of one night and frs
end of another for we were in the hay
field sixteen hours
And that evening after supper ht
said / might throw the dirt out of ;
new cellar while l rested
Then We milked and he gave mt
/ eight cows instead of six-all kickers
And one OF them was hooker too
and slammed me through the corr
crb.
~ got to bed an hour sooner thar
the night before because he said he wa
thinking some of getting up early III
/ next morning.
And that night il rained and 1 hearC
/ the pleasant patter Of the rain on the
( roof that that old fraud of a docto
/ spoke about. But it didn't lull me 4
sleep because It leaked down on m,
and got the bed clothes all wet and
"And when the farmer pounded OF
the stairs 1 got up and looked at m
watch and ! had been abed an hon
and forty minutes. And my clothe
were wet and there was water in m
shoes.
''But 1t was a good day and W
worked At the hay again. We mowe'
down what the farmer called 'slathel
of it. And that night after had reste'
/ awhile on the cellar and MIXED th
! twelve cows-twelve kickers-and on
of them thought | was trying 20 kldna
her calf and chased me out OF the yar
the farmer said it looked like RAJ
again and he Teckoned we'd better z
out and cock up the hay before beC
time.
"Aud before we got TO the field sa'
the morning star and when l had &c
up twelve punches of hay and the oil
hypocrite of a farmer four, L heard
lark. Then when had up iweuty-foU
bunehes and the farmer SIX IL bega
TO grow quite light
when the farmer saw it he lal
down on the hay and laughed for te
minutes. lie said We had worke
right through the night without know
ing It
But l had known mote about
than lie thought / had.
We worked an hour longer and the
We went TO the house and / milkeC
Breakfast wasn't quite ready and
threw couple of cubic yards of san
out Of the bottom Ofthe cellar.
And while we were eating the IA
} mer told me 10 hurry because lie woul
ike to get In one full days work duI
ing haying. l sad I would too an
thaDL would stop and 20 cut and hai
ness The horses. And lac said that W.
business and / went ont and ran dow
the road and walked into Iogn,
And now | am looking for that oil
liar of physician and surgeon VIII
told me about the long nights sleep
would get on a farm"